GRE Word List
SOLILOQUY
the act of talking to oneself
The meaning of the word soliloquy is the act of talking to oneself.
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| culvert | a transverse drain |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
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| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |