GRE Word List
AMULET
a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft)
The meaning of the word amulet is a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| antecede | precede |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |