GRE Word List
NEMESIS
the Greek goddess of retributive justice
The meaning of the word nemesis is the Greek goddess of retributive justice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| primal | original |