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 |
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| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |