GRE Word List
BACCHANAL
orgy
The meaning of the word bacchanal is orgy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| billowing | wave |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| demure | reserved |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| retribution | recompense |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |