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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |