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 |
|---|---|
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |