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 |
|---|---|
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |