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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WordMeaning
decreean order usually having the force of law
punitiveinflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
inconsequentialof no significance : unimportant
stultifyto have a dulling or inhibiting effect on
warrantedsanction
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
exclaimto cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion
posteritythe offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation
abstemiousmarked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol
swindlerto obtain money or property by fraud or deceit