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 |
|---|---|
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| enhance | heighten |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |