GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parlance | speech |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |