GRE Word List
ACCOLADE
a mark of acknowledgment : award
The meaning of the word accolade is a mark of acknowledgment : award.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rank | relative standing or position |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |