GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conflagration | fire |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |