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 |
|---|---|
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| quench | put out |
