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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |