GRE Word List
PSEUDONYM
a fictitious name
The meaning of the word pseudonym is a fictitious name.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| 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 |
| hurl | rush |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |