GRE Word List
OCCIDENT
west
The meaning of the word occident is west.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |