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 |
|---|---|
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| conspire | plot |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |