GRE Word List
EXPOSTULATION
an act or an instance of expostulating
The meaning of the word expostulation is an act or an instance of expostulating.
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magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
enhance | heighten |
prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
convention | agreement |
reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |