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 |
|---|---|
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| cataclysm | flood |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |