GRE Word List
REQUIEM
a mass for the dead
The meaning of the word requiem is a mass for the dead.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
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| tout | to make much of : promote |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| encumber | weigh down |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |