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 |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| auroral | dawn |
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |