GRE Word List
TEDIUM
the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness
The meaning of the word tedium is the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |