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
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| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| wry | twist |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |