GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| finished | entirely done |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |