GRE Word List
CENTAUR
any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly
The meaning of the word centaur is any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| calculated | apt |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |