GRE Word List
AVALANCHE
a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice
The meaning of the word avalanche is a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |