GRE Word List
AUTOMATON
a mechanism that is relatively self-operating
The meaning of the word automaton is a mechanism that is relatively self-operating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fleck | streak |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |