GRE Word List
ESCAPADE
a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct
The meaning of the word escapade is a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |