GRE Word List
CENTURION
an officer commanding a Roman century
The meaning of the word centurion is an officer commanding a Roman century.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |