GRE Word List
NECTAR
the drink of the Greek and Roman gods
The meaning of the word nectar is the drink of the Greek and Roman gods.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| cataclysm | flood |
| nourish | nurture |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |