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 |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |