GRE Word List
ACME
the highest point or stage
The meaning of the word acme is the highest point or stage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |