GRE Word List
TOUCHSTONE
a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis
The meaning of the word touchstone is a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |