GRE Word List
FIGURE
a number symbol : numeral
The meaning of the word figure is a number symbol : numeral.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |