GRE Word List
AVERSION
a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
The meaning of the word aversion is a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it.
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eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
corrugated | having corrugations |
gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
indissoluble | not dissoluble |
deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |