GRE Word List
TRIBUTE
something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved
The meaning of the word tribute is something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |