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 |
|---|---|
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| avocation | a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |