GRE Word List
CUBICLE
a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room
The meaning of the word cubicle is a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| whittle | a large knife |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |