GRE Word List
SEASON
a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature
The meaning of the word season is a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |