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 |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| forte | one's strong point |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |