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 |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |