GRE Word List
OSTRACIZE
to exile by ostracism
The meaning of the word ostracize is to exile by ostracism.
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congenial | pleasant |
bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
extant | currently or actually existing |
obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
precipitous | precipitate |
duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |