GRE Word List
HOROSCOPE
a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life
The meaning of the word horoscope is a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| condole | grieve |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |