GRE Word List
FETE
festival
The meaning of the word fete is festival.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| onus | burden |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |