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 |
|---|---|
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
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| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |