GRE Word List
MISOGAMY
a hatred of marriage
The meaning of the word misogamy is a hatred of marriage.
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| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
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| warranted | sanction |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
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| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
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