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 |
|---|---|
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| warranted | sanction |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |