GRE Word List
PSYCHE
a princess loved by Cupid
The meaning of the word psyche is a princess loved by Cupid.
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| 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 |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| dys- | abnormal |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |