GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| headlong | headfirst |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| dire | exciting horror |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |