GRE Word List

GAZETTE

newspaper

The meaning of the word gazette is newspaper.

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cowerto shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays
despoilto strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
humorthat quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality
irreverencelack of reverence
depredationto lay waste : plunder
aureolea radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage
devoidbeing without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
phoenixa legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
deciduousfalling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle