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 |
|---|---|
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| rank | relative standing or position |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |