GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calculated | apt |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| spoof | deceive |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| demented | mad |