GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
Random words
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| progeny | descendants |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |