GRE Word List
FANATICISM
fanatic outlook or behavior
The meaning of the word fanaticism is fanatic outlook or behavior.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |