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 |
|---|---|
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |