GRE Word List
EXECUTIONER
one who executes
The meaning of the word executioner is one who executes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| quench | put out |