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 |
|---|---|
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| cryptic | secret |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| guileless | innocent |