GRE Word List
PALIMPSEST
writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
The meaning of the word palimpsest is writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| cohorts | companion |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |