GRE Word List
MOTE
a small particle : speck
The meaning of the word mote is a small particle : speck.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |