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 |
|---|---|
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |