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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |