GRE Word List
PATRICIAN
a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome
The meaning of the word patrician is a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |