GRE Word List
APATHY
lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness
The meaning of the word apathy is lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| 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 |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| append | attach |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gust | the sensation of taste |