GRE Word List
VAMPIRE
the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep
The meaning of the word vampire is the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ploy | escapade |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| devious | wandering |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |