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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| wry | twist |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| forlorn | bereft |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |