GRE Word List
FAVORITISM
the showing of special favor : partiality
The meaning of the word favoritism is the showing of special favor : partiality.
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|---|---|
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| render | to melt down |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |