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 |
|---|---|
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| overthrow | overturn |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| concatenate | linked together |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |