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 |
|---|---|
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| sheer | unqualified |