GRE Word List
PHILISTINE
a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
The meaning of the word philistine is a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| executor | one who executes something |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| lewd | obscene |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |