GRE Word List
PEER
one that is of equal standing with another : equal
The meaning of the word peer is one that is of equal standing with another : equal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| schism | division |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |