GRE Word List
ADVERSE
acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
The meaning of the word adverse is acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |