GRE Word List
MALAPROPISM
the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase
The meaning of the word malapropism is the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| dys- | abnormal |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| rickety | affected with rickets |