GRE Word List
SKEPTIC
an adherent or advocate of skepticism
The meaning of the word skeptic is an adherent or advocate of skepticism.
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|---|---|
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
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| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |