GRE Word List
PREAMBLE
an introductory statement
The meaning of the word preamble is an introductory statement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| boor | peasant |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| quench | put out |