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 |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| biting | having the power to bite |