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 |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |