GRE Word List

PASSE

past one's prime

The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.

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outskirtsa part remote from the center : border
etymologythe 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
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choreographythe art of symbolically representing dancing
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discordantbeing at variance : disagreeing
mercantileof or relating to merchants or trading
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