GRE Word List
REPOSITORY
a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository
The meaning of the word repository is a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| quench | put out |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |