GRE Word List
CATHARTIC
of, relating to, or producing catharsis
The meaning of the word cathartic is of, relating to, or producing catharsis.
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vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
collected | gathered together |
loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
sanguinary | bloodthirsty |