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 |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| growl | rumble |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |