GRE Word List
SENTINEL
sentry
The meaning of the word sentinel is sentry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |