GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| sublimate | sublime |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |