GRE Word List
CONTEST
strive
The meaning of the word contest is strive.
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|---|---|
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
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| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| rustle | to make or cause a rustle |