GRE Word List
OPUS
work
The meaning of the word opus is work.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| podium | a low wall serving as a foundation or terrace wall: such as |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |