GRE Word List
AFFLUENCE
abundance of property : wealth
The meaning of the word affluence is abundance of property : wealth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |