GRE Word List
ROTE
the use of memory usually with little intelligence
The meaning of the word rote is the use of memory usually with little intelligence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |