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 |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| rightful | just |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |