GRE Word List
PRIVY
private
The meaning of the word privy is private.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |