GRE Word List
VALEDICTION
an act of bidding farewell
The meaning of the word valediction is an act of bidding farewell.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |