GRE Word List
NEOPHYTE
a new convert : proselyte
The meaning of the word neophyte is a new convert : proselyte.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| unfrock | defrock |
| 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 |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |