GRE Word List
IDIOM
an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way)
The meaning of the word idiom is an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sophist | philosopher |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| exhume | disinter |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |