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 |
|---|---|
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| retrench | cut down |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |