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 |
|---|---|
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| demise | death |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |