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
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|---|---|
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
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| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
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| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
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