GRE Word List
MATRIMONY
the state of being married : marriage
The meaning of the word matrimony is the state of being married : marriage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| sheer | unqualified |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| osseous | bony |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |