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 |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |