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 |
|---|---|
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| clasp | a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| magnitude | great size or extent |