GRE Word List
REQUIEM
a mass for the dead
The meaning of the word requiem is a mass for the dead.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| convene | to come together in a body |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |