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 |
|---|---|
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| portly | dignified |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |