GRE Word List
NEMESIS
the Greek goddess of retributive justice
The meaning of the word nemesis is the Greek goddess of retributive justice.
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| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
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| emanate | to come out from a source |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |