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 |
|---|---|
| clime | climate |
| executor | one who executes something |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |