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 |
|---|---|
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| gamut | the whole series of recognized musical notes |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |