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 |
|---|---|
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |