GRE Word List
CRONE
a cruel or ugly old woman
The meaning of the word crone is a cruel or ugly old woman.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| edifice | building |