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 |
|---|---|
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |