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 |
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| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| influx | a coming in |
| demise | death |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |