GRE Word List
NUANCE
a subtle distinction or variation
The meaning of the word nuance is a subtle distinction or variation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| clime | climate |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| succor | relief |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |