GRE Word List
QUARRY
game
The meaning of the word quarry is game.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| headlong | headfirst |