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 |
|---|---|
| provenance | origin |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |