GRE Word List
SOJOURN
a temporary stay
The meaning of the word sojourn is a temporary stay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| tactful | having or showing tact |