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 |
|---|---|
| reputed | having a good repute : reputable |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
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| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |