GRE Word List
LACHRYMOSE
given to tears or weeping : tearful
The meaning of the word lachrymose is given to tears or weeping : tearful.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |