GRE Word List
CRYPT
a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground
The meaning of the word crypt is a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |