GRE Word List
HORTATORY
hortative
The meaning of the word hortatory is hortative.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| retaliate | to return like for like |