GRE Word List
PRIME
the second of the canonical hours
The meaning of the word prime is the second of the canonical hours.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| pilfer | steal |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| cow | the mature female of cattle (genus Bos) |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |