GRE Word List
IMPERIOUS
marked by arrogant assurance : domineering
The meaning of the word imperious is marked by arrogant assurance : domineering.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
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| expatriate | banish |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |