GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
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| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |