GRE Word List
NOTORIETY
the quality or state of being notorious
The meaning of the word notoriety is the quality or state of being notorious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
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| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| expatriate | banish |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |