GRE Word List
SEPULCHER
a place of burial : tomb
The meaning of the word sepulcher is a place of burial : tomb.
Random words
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|---|---|
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| facade | the front of a building |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |