GRE Word List
MIRAGE
an optical (see optical
The meaning of the word mirage is an optical (see optical.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| approbation | commendation |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |