GRE Word List
NEOLOGISM
a new word, usage, or expression
The meaning of the word neologism is a new word, usage, or expression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |