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 |
|---|---|
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |