GRE Word List
ECCENTRICITY
the quality or state of being eccentric
The meaning of the word eccentricity is the quality or state of being eccentric.
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genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |