GRE Word List
ROTUNDA
a round building
The meaning of the word rotunda is a round building.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| retiring | reserved |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |