GRE Word List
MASQUERADE
a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes
The meaning of the word masquerade is a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| scion | descendant |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |