GRE Word List
OBSEQUY
a funeral or burial rite
The meaning of the word obsequy is a funeral or burial rite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
