GRE Word List
PARALLELISM
the quality or state of being parallel
The meaning of the word parallelism is the quality or state of being parallel.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |