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 |
|---|---|
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| clown | farmer |
| wreak | bring about |
| addle | rotten |
| cataract | a clouding of the lens of the eye or of its surrounding transparent membrane that obstructs the passage of light |