GRE Word List
YEN
a strong desire or propensity
The meaning of the word yen is a strong desire or propensity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |