GRE Word List
ASYLUM
an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary
The meaning of the word asylum is an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary.
Random words
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| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
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| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| dally | to act playfully |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |