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 |
|---|---|
| grudging | unwilling |
| leave-taking | departure |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| auroral | dawn |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |