GRE Word List

GLAMOR

an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness

The meaning of the word glamor is an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness.

Random words

WordMeaning
cachea hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements
incandescentwhite, glowing, or luminous with intense heat
hacklesone of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird
phyluma direct line of descent within a group
levitateto rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
pervertto cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt
torrenta violent or forceful flow of fluid
swampa wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
juxtaposeto place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)