GRE Word List
CREDULITY
readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
The meaning of the word credulity is readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
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| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| flowery | of, relating to, or resembling flowers |
| malediction | curse |
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