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 |
|---|---|
| indite | make up |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| leave-taking | departure |