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 |
|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |