GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |