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 |
|---|---|
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |