GRE Word List
DISTINCTION
the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference
The meaning of the word distinction is the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| portly | dignified |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| 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 |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |