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 |
|---|---|
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| exhume | disinter |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| ultimate | last in a progression or series : final |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |