GRE Word List
ASKEW
out of line : at an angle
The meaning of the word askew is out of line : at an angle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| ramification | branch |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |