GRE Word List
ANTITHESIS
the direct opposite
The meaning of the word antithesis is the direct opposite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slew | a large number |
| reputed | having a good repute : reputable |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |