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 |
|---|---|
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |