GRE Word List
TALISMAN
an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune
The meaning of the word talisman is an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| trappings | outward signs |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |