GRE Word List
VIGIL
the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary
The meaning of the word vigil is the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| reek | smoke |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| ebullient | boiling |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |