GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| recast | to cast again |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |