GRE Word List
REACTIONARY
relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction
The meaning of the word reactionary is relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| brook | creek |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| vanguard | the forefront of an action or movement |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |