GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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The meaning of the word ostensible is intended for display : open to view.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| rational | having reason or understanding |