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 |
|---|---|
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |