GRE Word List
IGNOBLE
characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness
The meaning of the word ignoble is characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| meticulous | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| noisome | noxious |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
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