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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| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| quench | put out |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |