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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| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
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| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |