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 |
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harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
cremate | to subject to cremation |
pallid | deficient in color : wan |
glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
impeccable | free from fault or blame : flawless |
lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
blanch | to take the color out of |
hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |