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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| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| clime | climate |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |