GRE Word List

SEASON

a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature

The meaning of the word season is a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature.

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WordMeaning
taciturntemperamentally disinclined to talk
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
snubto check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
mitigateto cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify
fraileasily led into evil
alcovea small recessed section of a room : nook
mirewet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)
captiousmarked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections
replicaan exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist
hewto cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument