GRE Word List
RELISH
characteristic flavor
The meaning of the word relish is characteristic flavor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| laud | praise |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |