GRE Word List
ELIXIR
a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold
The meaning of the word elixir is a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| polity | political organization |
| guy | man |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |