GRE Word List
NOVELTY
something new or unusual
The meaning of the word novelty is something new or unusual.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |