GRE Word List
ABSTRACT
disassociated from any specific instance
The meaning of the word abstract is disassociated from any specific instance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| cherubic | an order of angels see celestial hierarchy |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |