GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| 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 |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |