GRE Word List
ELIXIR
a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold
The meaning of the word elixir is a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold.
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| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| boor | peasant |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |