GRE Word List
VIAND
an item of food
The meaning of the word viand is an item of food.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |