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 |
|---|---|
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| sentinel | sentry |
| conflagration | fire |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |