GRE Word List
CRINGE
to recoil in distaste
The meaning of the word cringe is to recoil in distaste.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
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| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| grotto | cave |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |