GRE Word List
FACTOTUM
a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities
The meaning of the word factotum is a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |