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 |
|---|---|
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| enhance | heighten |
| leery | suspicious |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| demise | death |