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 |
|---|---|
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| diva | prima donna |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| 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 |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |