GRE Word List
SOJOURN
a temporary stay
The meaning of the word sojourn is a temporary stay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| retrench | cut down |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |