GRE Word List
COLLATION
a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper
The meaning of the word collation is a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| unfrock | defrock |