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 |
|---|---|
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |