GRE Word List
MODISH
fashionable
The meaning of the word modish is fashionable.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| ensconce | shelter |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| polity | political organization |