GRE Word List
VICTUALS
food usable by people
The meaning of the word victuals is food usable by people.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| 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 |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| facade | the front of a building |