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

WordMeaning
rendto remove from place by violence : wrest
circumventto manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
promontorya high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water
viseany of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam
warrantya real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title
gorycovered with gore : bloodstained
culminationthe action of culminating
requiema mass for the dead
subterfugedeception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade
spoonerisma transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)