GRE Word List
RUNIC
any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries
The meaning of the word runic is any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| charlatan | quack |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| retract | to draw back or in |