GRE Word List
MONOTONY
tedious sameness
The meaning of the word monotony is tedious sameness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |