GRE Word List
ENCLAVE
a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory
The meaning of the word enclave is a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |