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 |
|---|---|
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| predetermine | foreordain |