GRE Word List

DISPARATE

markedly distinct in quality or character

The meaning of the word disparate is markedly distinct in quality or character.

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WordMeaning
urgentcalling for immediate attention : pressing
singularof or relating to a separate person or thing : individual
juxtaposeto place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
collectedgathered together
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
swarma great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere
pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition
recitala detailed account : enumeration
stipenda fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses
regenta person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign