GRE Word List
EFFLUVIUM
an invisible emanation
The meaning of the word effluvium is an invisible emanation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| edifice | building |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |