GRE Word List
REPAST
something taken as food : meal
The meaning of the word repast is something taken as food : meal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| lax | loose |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| whimsy | whim |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |