GRE Word List
SIBYLLINE
any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
The meaning of the word sibylline is any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |