GRE Word List
OCCIDENT
west
The meaning of the word occident is west.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| puerile | juvenile |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |