GRE Word List
KUDOS
praise given for achievement
The meaning of the word kudos is praise given for achievement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| cohorts | companion |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| hap | happening |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |