GRE Word List
GROTTO
cave
The meaning of the word grotto is cave.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| hortatory | hortative |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |