GRE Word List
RIGOR
harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity
The meaning of the word rigor is harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blackball | to vote against |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| sublimate | sublime |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |