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 |
|---|---|
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| rift | fissure |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |