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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| invalid | not valid: |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |