GRE Word List
DISTINCTIVE
marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish
The meaning of the word distinctive is marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| alleviate | relieve |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |