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 |
|---|---|
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |