GRE Word List
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
The meaning of the word magnanimity is 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.
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supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
impinge | encroach |
arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |