GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| fete | festival |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |