GRE Word List
PARADOX
one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
The meaning of the word paradox is one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |