GRE Word List
PRESTIGE
standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion
The meaning of the word prestige is standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| aptitude | inclination |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |