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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discretionindividual choice or judgment
primogeniturethe state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents
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multilingualof, having, or expressed in several languages