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
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|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| 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) |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |