GRE Word List
HALCYON
characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden
The meaning of the word halcyon is characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |