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 |
|---|---|
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |