GRE Word List
ZEPHYR
a breeze from the west
The meaning of the word zephyr is a breeze from the west.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| pitfall | trap |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| brink | edge |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| shambles | a meat market |