GRE Word List
STRATUM
a bed or layer artificially made
The meaning of the word stratum is a bed or layer artificially made.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| paradigm | example |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |