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 |
|---|---|
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| finery | ornament |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |