GRE Word List
ELYSIAN
of or relating to Elysium
The meaning of the word elysian is of or relating to Elysium.
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hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |