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 |
|---|---|
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| 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 |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |