GRE Word List
MAUSOLEUM
a large tomb
The meaning of the word mausoleum is a large tomb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |