GRE Word List
PIGMENT
a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials
The meaning of the word pigment is a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |