GRE Word List
TOTEM
an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry
The meaning of the word totem is an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |