GRE Word List
PRATE
to talk long and idly : chatter
The meaning of the word prate is to talk long and idly : chatter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| colloquy | conversation |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| privy | private |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
