GRE Word List
GRADATION
a series forming successive stages
The meaning of the word gradation is a series forming successive stages.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| garnish | decorate |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
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| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |