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 |
|---|---|
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| hubbub | noise |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |