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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| occident | west |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |