GRE Word List
AUGUST
marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
The meaning of the word august is marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| query | question |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |