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 |
|---|---|
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |