GRE Word List
APPARITION
an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon
The meaning of the word apparition is an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon.
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| premonitory | giving warning |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| headlong | headfirst |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |