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 |
|---|---|
| forte | one's strong point |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| sheer | unqualified |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |