GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| haggard | not tamed |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| warrant | sanction |