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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| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |