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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seasonable | suitable to the season or circumstances : timely |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| overweening | arrogant |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| metaphor | a 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) |