GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |