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 |
|---|---|
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| sibling | sib |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |