GRE Word List
BELATED
delayed beyond the usual time
The meaning of the word belated is delayed beyond the usual time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| sophist | philosopher |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| stringent | tight |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |