GRE Word List

PRIVY

private

The meaning of the word privy is private.

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WordMeaning
purgatoryan intermediate state after death for expiatory purification
ambivalencesimultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
effusionan act of effusing
raveto talk irrationally in or as if in delirium
relican object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr
mockto treat with contempt or ridicule : deride
postmortemdone, occurring, or collected after death
fatuouscomplacently or inanely foolish : silly
animadversiona critical and usually censorious remark
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral