GRE Word List
PATRICIAN
a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome
The meaning of the word patrician is a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome.
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| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| circlet | a little circle |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |