GRE Word List
EFFRONTERY
shameless boldness : insolence
The meaning of the word effrontery is shameless boldness : insolence.
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|---|---|
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
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| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| fuddle | booze |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
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