GRE Word List
HIEROGLYPHIC
written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters
The meaning of the word hieroglyphic is written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cunning | dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| flounder | flatfish |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |