GRE Word List
OCCIDENT
west
The meaning of the word occident is west.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |