GRE Word List
AMPHITHEATER
an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles
The meaning of the word amphitheater is an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
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| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |