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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| nexus | connection |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |