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 |
|---|---|
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| consort | associate |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| viand | an item of food |
| cuisine | manner of preparing food : style of cooking |