GRE Word List
POSTHUMOUS
born after the death of the father
The meaning of the word posthumous is born after the death of the father.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| comestible | edible |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| puerile | juvenile |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |