GRE Word List
PROMONTORY
headland
The meaning of the word promontory is headland.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shun | keep away from; avoid deliberately; Ex. She has been shunned by her neighbors. |
| millennium | thousand-year period (as in the New Testament); hoped-for period of happiness and prosperity |
| enrapture | please intensely; fill with rapture and delight |
| imponderable | weightless; that cannot undergo precise evaluation; CF. pound |
| glare | shine intensely and blindingly; stare fixedly and angrily; N. |
| vivisection | act of dissecting living animals |
| felon | person convicted of a grave crime; CF. felony: serious crime |
| obsequious | slavishly attentive; servile; full of servile compliance; sycophantic |
| beatific | giving or showing bliss; blissful |
| sentinel | sentry; lookout |
