GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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offensive | making attack : aggressive |
titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
aseptic | preventing infection |
purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
atypical | not typical : irregular |