GRE Word List
EVANESCENT
tending to vanish like vapor
The meaning of the word evanescent is tending to vanish like vapor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| congruent | congruous |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |