GRE Word List
TREASURE
wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded
The meaning of the word treasure is wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |