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 |
|---|---|
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| gazette | newspaper |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |