GRE Word List
FUNCTIONARY
one who serves in a certain function
The meaning of the word functionary is one who serves in a certain function.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| entity | being |
| 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 |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| schism | division |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |