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 |
|---|---|
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |