GRE Word List
PLAUDIT
an act or round of applause
The meaning of the word plaudit is an act or round of applause.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| aver | to declare positively |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |