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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somaticof, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm
forthrightfree from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point
finalethe close or termination of something: such as
anthologya collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music
aggrandizeto make great or greater : increase
aphasialoss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection)
torpora state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
indentationthe blank space produced by indenting : indention
pragmaticrelating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic