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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |