GRE Word List
LITOTES
understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy")
The meaning of the word litotes is understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy").
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |