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 |
|---|---|
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| scotch | scottish |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |