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 |
|---|---|
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| sleek | slick |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |