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 |
|---|---|
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| romp | one that romps |