GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |