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 |
|---|---|
| microcosm | a little world |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| connoisseur | expert |