GRE Word List
ANTITHESIS
the direct opposite
The meaning of the word antithesis is the direct opposite.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |