GRE Word List
MANTLE
a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak
The meaning of the word mantle is a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |