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 |
|---|---|
| executioner | one who executes |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| 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 |
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| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| dart | a light spear |