GRE Word List
PRIM
to give a prim or demure expression to
The meaning of the word prim is to give a prim or demure expression to.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |