GRE Word List
AUGUST
marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
The meaning of the word august is marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| stout | strong of character: such as |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |