GRE Word List
POTPOURRI
a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent
The meaning of the word potpourri is a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| sidetrack | siding |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |