GRE Word List
FACULTY
ability
The meaning of the word faculty is ability.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| momentum | a property (see property |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |