GRE Word List
EGRESS
a place or means of going out : exit
The meaning of the word egress is a place or means of going out : exit.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |