GRE Word List
HAGGARD
not tamed
The meaning of the word haggard is not tamed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |