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 |
|---|---|
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |