GRE Word List
CLIQUE
a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons
The meaning of the word clique is a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| flounder | flatfish |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |