GRE Word List
PARAMOUR
lover
The meaning of the word paramour is lover.
Random words
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| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |