GRE Word List

BELATED

delayed beyond the usual time

The meaning of the word belated is delayed beyond the usual time.

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WordMeaning
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
pento shut in or as if in a pen
implodeto burst inward
warrantsanction
paraphernaliathe separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life
purchaseto obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy
queasycausing nausea
maudlindrunk enough to be emotionally silly
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
refractiondeflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different