GRE Word List
CAPACITY
legal competency (see competence
The meaning of the word capacity is legal competency (see competence.
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|---|---|
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
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| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| drab | slattern |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |