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 |
|---|---|
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| wanton | merciless |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |