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 |
|---|---|
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |