GRE Word List
DECRY
to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly
The meaning of the word decry is to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly.
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| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |