Tuesday, March 30, 2010

GRE VOCAB: “words related to journey”


1. Wanderlust: excessive desire for travel

2. Peregrination (n): travel or wander form place to place

3. Sojourn (n): a temporary stay
(v): stay temporarily.

4. Odyssey (n): a long and eventful or adventurous journey or process




5. Jaunt (n): a short excursion for pleasure
(v): go on a jaunt


6. Trek (n): a long difficult journey, especially one made on foot
(v): go on a trek

7. Peripatetic (adj): traveling from place to place
Antonyms: Stationary


8. Itinerant (adj): traveling from place to place
(n): an itinerant person

9. Hegira (n): departure of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in AD 622.
: A journey to a more pleasant place; an exodus or migration.

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