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 |
|---|---|
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| bountiful | liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| clientele | a body of clients |