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 |
|---|---|
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| seemly | good-looking |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |