GRE Word List
CISTERN
an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater)
The meaning of the word cistern is an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |