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 |
|---|---|
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |