GRE Word List
PUNCTILIOUS
marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions
The meaning of the word punctilious is marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| sublimate | sublime |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
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| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |