GRE Word List
ODYSSEY
a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
The meaning of the word odyssey is a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |