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 |
|---|---|
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| unfrock | defrock |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| benison | blessing |