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 |
|---|---|
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| skimp | skimpy |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| wry | twist |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |