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 |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| acidulous | somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |