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 |
|---|---|
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| cataclysm | flood |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |