GRE Word List
YORE
time past and especially long past
The meaning of the word yore is time past and especially long past.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| whittle | a large knife |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| consort | associate |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| braid | to make from braids |