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 |
|---|---|
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |