GRE Word List

REQUIEM

a mass for the dead

The meaning of the word requiem is a mass for the dead.

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campa place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers)
anodyneserving to alleviate pain
gruelingtrying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing
reverentexpressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful
distillto let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate
fraughtfull of or accompanied by something specified
bromidea binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives
migratoryof, relating to, or characterized by migration
extricateto free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
aphorisma concise statement of a principle