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 |
|---|---|
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |