GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| sheer | unqualified |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |