GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| blackball | to vote against |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| noisome | noxious |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |