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 |
|---|---|
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| debut | a first appearance |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dynamo | generator |