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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| defalcate | deduct |
| abominate | to hate or loathe intensely : abhor |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |