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 |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| shack | hut |
| haven | harbor |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |