GRE Word List
ASYLUM
an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary
The meaning of the word asylum is an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary.
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| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| paradigm | example |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| opus | work |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |