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
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arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |
viable | capable of living |
litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |