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 |
|---|---|
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| giddy | dizzy |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |