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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WordMeaning
stanchto check or stop the flowing of
pendulouspoised without visible support
superannuatedoutmoded
inimicalbeing adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence
hindsightperception of the nature of an event after it has happened
antlerone of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family
libidoinstinctual 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
definitiveserving to provide a final solution or to end a situation
pharisaicalmarked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
vitiateto make faulty or defective : impair