GRE Word List
REBUS
a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound
The meaning of the word rebus is a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |