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 |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |