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 |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| migratory | of, relating to, or characterized by migration |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| lode | waterway |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |