GRE Word List
SUCCOR
relief
The meaning of the word succor is relief.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |
| 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 |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| microcosm | a little world |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |