GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| dint | force |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |