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 |
|---|---|
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |