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 |
|---|---|
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |