GRE Word List
CRYPT
secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church)
The meaning of the word crypt is secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church).
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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reverie | daydream; abstracted musing |
turgid | swollen; distended (as from liquid) |
consanguinity | kinship; relationship by birth |
rigid | hard and unbending; stiff and unyielding; fixed in behavior or views; strict; rigorous; Ex. rigid rule |
hypocritical | pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite |
equity | fairness; justice; OP. inequity |
coroner | public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes |
wont | (the stated person's) habit or custom; habitual procedure; ADJ. wonted: customary |
supercilious | haughty; arrogant; condescending; patronizing; CF. eyebrow, cilium |
urge | drive or force forward (by causing impulses); drive to take action; impel; entreat earnestly; Ex. urge horses; N: impulse that prompts action |