GRE Word List
INCUBUS
an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep
The meaning of the word incubus is an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| billow | wave |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |