GRE Word List
GOURMET
a connoisseur of food and drink
The meaning of the word gourmet is a connoisseur of food and drink.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polity | political organization |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |