GRE Word List
MAUVE
a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color
The meaning of the word mauve is a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |