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.
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| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
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| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |