GRE Word List
DEROGATORY
expressive of a low opinion : disparaging
The meaning of the word derogatory is expressive of a low opinion : disparaging.
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|---|---|
| impuissance | weakness |
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| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |