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 |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| rift | fissure |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |