GRE Word List
LAMENT
to mourn aloud : wail
The meaning of the word lament is to mourn aloud : wail.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |