GRE Word List
FERVOR
intensity of feeling or expression
The meaning of the word fervor is intensity of feeling or expression.
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| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
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| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
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