GRE Word List
OCCIDENT
west
The meaning of the word occident is west.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |