GRE GRE Meaning by word 299

a long loud emotional utterance; ululation

the act of submitting

a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess; trencherman

person who makes animal hides into leather

a distinguished female operatic singer

an early warning about a future event

any system of principles or beliefs

the particular occupation for which you are trained; vocation

a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis

animal hunted or caught for food

an autocracy governed by a king who usually inherits the authority

an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition

the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets

use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; beginning rhyme; head rhyme

showing your contempt by derision; mockery; scoff; scoffing

a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

trick; magic; conjuration; illusion; deception

a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

tone of voice; quality of sound

a feeling of alarm or dread

puzzling complexity; tortuousness

use of physical or mental energy; exertion; sweat

a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; shade; subtlety; refinement

the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

someone who deliberately foments trouble; inciter; instigant

belief that physical comfort is the highest value

an understanding of something that is not correct

a writing system using picture symbols

an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying