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 |
|---|---|
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| wry | twist |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |