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 |
|---|---|
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| 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 |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |