GRE Word List

PHALANX

a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files

The meaning of the word phalanx is a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files.

Random words

WordMeaning
flukeflatfish
draftthe act of drawing or pulling in a net
searbeing dried and withered
luminarya person of prominence or brilliant achievement
repletefully or abundantly provided or filled
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
hardybold
squatto cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground
mausoleuma large tomb
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)