GRE Word List
MISOGAMY
a hatred of marriage
The meaning of the word misogamy is a hatred of marriage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| 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 |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |