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 |
|---|---|
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| steep | lofty |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |