GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |