GRE Word List
UNDERTAKER
funeral director; one whose business is to arrange burials
The meaning of the word undertaker is funeral director; one whose business is to arrange burials.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissimulate | pretend; conceal by feigning; dissemble |
| pummel | pommel; beat or pound with fists |
| fitful | spasmodic; intermittent; irregular |
| mischance | ill luck |
| exude | flow out slowly; discharge (gradually); give forth; N. exudation |
| harbor | give protection (by giving food and shelter); provide a refuge for; hide; keep in mind (thoughts or feelings); Ex. harbor a grudge/criminal; N: place of shelter; refuge |
| animadversion | critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval |
| subsistence | existence; means of subsisting; means of support; livelihood; V. subsist: exist; maintain life (at a meager level) |
| stilted | bombastic; stiffly pompous; Ex. stilted rhetoric; CF. stiff: formal |
| tatter | torn piece of cloth; ADJ. tattered: (of clothes) old and torn; (of a person) dressed in old torn clothes |
