GRE Word List
TUREEN
a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served
The meaning of the word tureen is a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
statutory | of or relating to statutes |
colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
pungent | sharply painful |