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 |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |