GRE Word List

OCCIDENT

west

The meaning of the word occident is west.

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titularhaving the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities
grotesquea style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
asunderinto parts
mundaneof, relating to, or characteristic of the world
elaborateplanned or carried out with great care
sluicean artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow
umbragea feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
contaminateto soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association
impoverishto make poor
suitorone that petitions or entreats