GRE Word List
EFFLUVIUM
an invisible emanation
The meaning of the word effluvium is an invisible emanation.
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|---|---|
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |