GRE Word List
POSTMORTEM
done, occurring, or collected after death
The meaning of the word postmortem is done, occurring, or collected after death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| giddy | dizzy |