GRE Word List
GALLOWS
a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged
The meaning of the word gallows is a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| braid | to make from braids |
| oversee | survey |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |