GRE Word List
PEJORATIVE
a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation
The meaning of the word pejorative is a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| 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 |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| lax | loose |