GRE Word List

PARAGON

a model of excellence or perfection

The meaning of the word paragon is a model of excellence or perfection.

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symbiosisthe living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)
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demeritoffense
mashto reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
dourstern
trickleto issue or fall in drops
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sterilefailing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores
sibyllineany of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
ignoblecharacterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness