GRE Word List
JUNTA
a council or committee for political or governmental purposes
The meaning of the word junta is a council or committee for political or governmental purposes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |