GRE Word List
ROSTER
a roll or list of personnel
The meaning of the word roster is a roll or list of personnel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| fabricate | invent |