GRE Word List
ACUTE
characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
The meaning of the word acute is characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| environ | encircle |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |