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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |