GRE Word List
HOARD
a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away
The meaning of the word hoard is a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| steep | lofty |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| commune | talk over |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |