GRE Word List
DEGRADATION
the act or process of degrading
The meaning of the word degradation is the act or process of degrading.
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|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| viand | an item of food |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| warrant | sanction |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |