GRE Word List
PARAGON
a model of excellence or perfection
The meaning of the word paragon is a model of excellence or perfection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |