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 |
|---|---|
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |