GRE Word List
DEVIOUS
wandering
The meaning of the word devious is wandering.
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Word | Meaning |
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brisk | keenly alert : lively |
insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |