GRE Word List
BEVY
a large group or collection
The meaning of the word bevy is a large group or collection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |