GRE Word List

IMPOLITIC

not politic : unwise

The meaning of the word impolitic is not politic : unwise.

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WordMeaning
evoketo call forth or up: such as
emasculateto deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken
consistencyagreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence
calumnya misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
surrogateone appointed to act in place of another : deputy
staticexerting force by reason of weight alone without motion
renegeto go back on a promise or commitment
coupletwo persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired
adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval