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 |
|---|---|
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| prank | trick |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |