GRE Word List
GRANDEUR
the quality or state of being grand : magnificence
The meaning of the word grandeur is the quality or state of being grand : magnificence.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |