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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
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