GRE Word List
SANGUINE
marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic
The meaning of the word sanguine is marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| imprecation | curse |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |