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 |
|---|---|
| pastry | a dough that is used to make pies and other baked goods and typically has a high fat content : paste |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |