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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |