GRE Word List
STIGMA
a mark of shame or discredit : stain
The meaning of the word stigma is a mark of shame or discredit : stain.
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|---|---|
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| impuissance | weakness |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| bulk | magnitude |
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