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 |
|---|---|
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |