GRE Word List
MODISH
fashionable
The meaning of the word modish is fashionable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| circlet | a little circle |
| pugilist | fighter |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |