GRE Word List

ABERRATION

the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state

The meaning of the word aberration is the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state.

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libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
mottledmarked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors
mortara sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle
anonymitythe quality or state of being anonymous
staidmarked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober
pestilentialcausing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly
evenhandedfair
apoliticalhaving no interest or involvement in political affairs
commemorativeintended as a commemoration
ostracizeto exile by ostracism