GRE Word List
HORTATORY
hortative
The meaning of the word hortatory is hortative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |