GRE Word List
DEIGN
to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop
The meaning of the word deign is to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dingy | dirty |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| enhance | heighten |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |