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 |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |