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 |
|---|---|
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| exhume | disinter |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |