GRE Word List
RECTITUDE
the quality or state of being straight
The meaning of the word rectitude is the quality or state of being straight.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosody | the study of versification |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| dynamo | generator |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |