GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| 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 |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |