GRE Word List
PACHYDERM
thick-skinned animal
The meaning of the word pachyderm is thick-skinned animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recount | narrate or tell (a story); count over again |
| evoke | call forth (memory or feeling); Ex. That old film evoked memories of my childhood; N. evocation |
| magnanimity | generosity; ADJ. magnanimous: generous |
| alienate | make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of |
| sublime | causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.; exalted; noble and uplifting; utter |
| regimen | prescribed course of diet or exercise; prescribed diet and habits; Ex. daily regimen of a dancer |
| crave | desire; want intensely |
| contiguous | adjacent to; touching upon |
| badger | pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal |
| saturate | soak thoroughly; imbue; impregnate; charge; fill to capacity |