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 |
|---|---|
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |