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 |
|---|---|
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |