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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WordMeaning
deposeto remove from a throne or other high position
assuageto lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease
buffooneryfoolish or playful behavior or practice
vitiateto make faulty or defective : impair
semblanceoutward and often specious appearance or show : form
leavena substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
alleviaterelieve
commemorateto call to remembrance
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
autopsyan examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease