GRE Word List
PREAMBLE
an introductory statement
The meaning of the word preamble is an introductory statement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| giddy | dizzy |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| trample | tramp |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |