GRE Word List
PREDILECTION
an established preference for something
The meaning of the word predilection is an established preference for something.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |