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 |
|---|---|
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |