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 |
|---|---|
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |