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 |
|---|---|
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |