GRE Word List
MNEMONIC
assisting or intended to assist memory
The meaning of the word mnemonic is assisting or intended to assist memory.
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| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |