GRE Word List

OSTENSIBLE

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WordMeaning
retiringreserved
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
eonan immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age
venturesomeinclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring
effluviuman invisible emanation
illusivebased on or producing illusion : illusory
erroneouscontaining or characterized by error : mistaken
rejoinderthe defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
claustrophobiaabnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces