GRE Word List

RIBALD

marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude

The meaning of the word ribald is marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude.

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detrimentalobviously harmful : damaging
anthologya collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music
mendicantbeggar
etymologythe 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
lowhaving a small upward extension or elevation
poreto gaze intently
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shadecomparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light
indicativeserving to indicate
archaichaving the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses