GRE Word List
ACETIC
vinegary
The meaning of the word acetic is vinegary.
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| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |