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 |
|---|---|
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |