GRE Word List
SQUALOR
the quality or state of being squalid
The meaning of the word squalor is the quality or state of being squalid.
Random words
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| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |