GRE Word List
ACERBITY
the quality of being acerbic
The meaning of the word acerbity is the quality of being acerbic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |