GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |