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 |
|---|---|
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| submerge | to put under water |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |