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 |
|---|---|
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |