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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| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| demented | mad |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
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| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |