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 |
|---|---|
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |