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 |
|---|---|
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |