GRE Word List
GOSSAMER
a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
The meaning of the word gossamer is a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| condole | grieve |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| document | proof |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |