GRE Word List
MOTLEY
variegated in color
The meaning of the word motley is variegated in color.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| scourge | whip |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |