GRE Word List
BOURGEOIS
of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
The meaning of the word bourgeois is of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |