GRE Word List
SOJOURN
a temporary stay
The meaning of the word sojourn is a temporary stay.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
posthumous | born after the death of the father |
carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
outmoded | not being in style |
titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
sleek | slick |