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 |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |