GRE Word List
SIREN
apparatus for making sounds; womanlike creature
The meaning of the word siren is apparatus for making sounds; womanlike creature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collected | composed; calm; self-possessed |
| stoop | bend forward and down; lower or debase oneself; fall to a lower standard of behavior by doing something; condescend; Ex. stoop to lying |
| exorcise | drive out evil spirits |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| laggard | slow; sluggish; N: one who lags; straggler |
| suppliant | entreating; beseeching; N. |
| niggardly | meanly stingy; parsimonious; N. niggard: stingy person |
| indissoluble | permanent; impossible to dissolve or disintegrate |
| balm | something that relieves pain; oily liquid with a pleasant smell from trees |
| ragamuffin | dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes |