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 |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |