GRE Word List
AMICABLE
characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable
The meaning of the word amicable is characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| retribution | recompense |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| misadventure | misfortune |