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 |
|---|---|
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| provenance | origin |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| warranted | sanction |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |