GRE Word List
ALTERCATION
a noisy, heated, angry dispute
The meaning of the word altercation is a noisy, heated, angry dispute.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |