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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |