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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|---|---|
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |