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 |
|---|---|
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |