GRE GRE Meaning by word 263

a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification; protective embankment

a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; burnouse

a notable achievement

a very wealthy or powerful businessman; king; magnate; power; top executive; tycoon

in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy

the characteristic sounds made by a horse; whicker; whinny

a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator; absolutism; authoritarianism; one-man rule; shogunate; totalitarianism; tyranny

a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular

inheritance; bequest

a channel for communication between groups; contact; inter-group communication

a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm

reading carefully with intent to remember; poring over; studying

a small stream; run; runnel; streamlet

a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; acknowledgment; credit; reference; mention; quotation

kinship; blood relation

mixed feelings or emotions

a primitive method of determining a person's guilt

powerlessness revealed by an inability to act

a small cave (usually with attractive features)

a metric unit of volume (capacity)

someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled

someone who insists on something

a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about

the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium