GRE Word List

PLAUDIT

an act or round of applause

The meaning of the word plaudit is an act or round of applause.

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WordMeaning
interdicta Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district
overwroughtextremely excited : agitated
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
miscellaneousconsisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous
salvagecompensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck
materialisma theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter
cloyingdisgusting or distasteful by reason of excess
gloatto observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight
phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
unwontedbeing out of the ordinary : rare