GRE Word List
ANTAGONISM
opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle
The meaning of the word antagonism is opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| forlorn | bereft |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |