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 |
|---|---|
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| viand | an item of food |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| headlong | headfirst |
| harass | exhaust |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| tome | book |