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 |
|---|---|
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| giddy | dizzy |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |