GRE Word List
MONOTONY
tedious sameness
The meaning of the word monotony is tedious sameness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| whittle | a large knife |