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 |
|---|---|
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| refrain | curb |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |