GRE Word List
SUBTLETY
the quality or state of being subtle
The meaning of the word subtlety is the quality or state of being subtle.
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|---|---|
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
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| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
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