GRE Word List
POTPOURRI
a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent
The meaning of the word potpourri is a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent.
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| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |