GRE Word List
COY
marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
The meaning of the word coy is marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| fleck | streak |