GRE Word List
NEGLIGENCE
the quality or state of being negligent
The meaning of the word negligence is the quality or state of being negligent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| 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 |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |