GRE Word List
GRADATION
a series forming successive stages
The meaning of the word gradation is a series forming successive stages.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |