GRE Word List
ADULATION
extreme or excessive admiration or flattery
The meaning of the word adulation is extreme or excessive admiration or flattery.
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inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
queasy | causing nausea |
addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
calorific | caloric |
distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
noisome | noxious |
abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
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