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 |
|---|---|
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |