GRE Word List
ANTITHESIS
the direct opposite
The meaning of the word antithesis is the direct opposite.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| equestrian | of, relating to, or featuring horseback riding |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| pliant | pliable |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |