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 |
|---|---|
| duration | continuance in time |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| migratory | of, relating to, or characterized by migration |
| innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |