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 |
|---|---|
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| expatriate | banish |