GRE Word List
PROWESS
distinguished bravery
The meaning of the word prowess is distinguished bravery.
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| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |