GRE Word List

APOTHEOSIS

the perfect form or example of something : quintessence

The meaning of the word apotheosis is the perfect form or example of something : quintessence.

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inklinga slight knowledge or vague notion
mandatoryrequired by a law or rule : obligatory
nettleany of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs
indenturea document or a section of a document that is indented
refractiondeflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different
aloofremoved or distant either physically or emotionally
implyto express indirectly
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
burlesquea literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation