GRE Word List
PREPOSSESSING
creating prejudice
The meaning of the word prepossessing is creating prejudice.
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|---|---|
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |