GRE Word List
EGREGIOUS
conspicuous
The meaning of the word egregious is conspicuous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| violate | break |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |