GRE Word List
CEREMONIOUS
devoted to forms and ceremony
The meaning of the word ceremonious is devoted to forms and ceremony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| mischance | bad luck |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| debonair | suave |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |