GRE Word List
GAZETTE
newspaper
The meaning of the word gazette is newspaper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |