GRE Word List
NUANCE
a subtle distinction or variation
The meaning of the word nuance is a subtle distinction or variation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |