GRE Word List
APOLOGIST
someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism
The meaning of the word apologist is someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| dart | a light spear |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |