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 |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| abnegation | denial |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |