GRE Word List
IGNOBLE
characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness
The meaning of the word ignoble is characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |