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 |
|---|---|
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| whimsy | whim |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |