GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tatter | to make ragged |
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| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
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