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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| humane | marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| dull | tedious |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| lag | one that lags or is last |