GRE Word List
INDIGNITY
an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult
The meaning of the word indignity is an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
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| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| haggard | not tamed |