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 |
|---|---|
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |