GRE Word List
PALIMPSEST
writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
The meaning of the word palimpsest is writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| encompass | include |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
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| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| fabricate | invent |
| inequity | injustice |
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