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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| countenance | look |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| hurl | rush |