GRE Word List
CONDIGN
deserved
The meaning of the word condign is deserved.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| mortician | undertaker |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
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| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |