GRE Word List
LEXICOGRAPHER
an author or editor of a dictionary
The meaning of the word lexicographer is an author or editor of a dictionary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| savant | a person of learning |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |