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 |
|---|---|
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |