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 |
|---|---|
| contest | strive |
| haven | harbor |
| heed | to pay attention |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |