GRE Word List
PILLORY
a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked
The meaning of the word pillory is a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |