GRE Word List
NEMESIS
the Greek goddess of retributive justice
The meaning of the word nemesis is the Greek goddess of retributive justice.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| microcosm | a little world |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |