GRE Word List

COTERIE

an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose

The meaning of the word coterie is an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose.

Random words

WordMeaning
seasonablesuitable to the season or circumstances : timely
misogamya hatred of marriage
fraileasily led into evil
recreantcrying for mercy : cowardly
impoverishto make poor
feuda mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate
overweeningarrogant
macabrehaving death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
explicitfully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent
metaphora figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)