GRE Word List
PEREGRINATION
to travel especially on foot : walk
The meaning of the word peregrination is to travel especially on foot : walk.
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timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
canter | one who uses cant: such as |
ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
quisling | traitor |
wrench | to move with a violent twist |
salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
dawdle | to spend time idly |
offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
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