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 |
|---|---|
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| aver | to declare positively |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |