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 |
|---|---|
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |