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 |
|---|---|
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |