GRE Word List
AWE
an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime
The meaning of the word awe is an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |