GRE Word List
OBITUARY
a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account
The meaning of the word obituary is a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| astute | having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |