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 |
|---|---|
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |