GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| hallowed | holy |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |