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 |
|---|---|
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |