GRE Word List
MOTTO
a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use
The meaning of the word motto is a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| melee | a confused struggle |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |