GRE Word List
PARAMOUR
lover
The meaning of the word paramour is lover.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |