GRE Word List
UPSHOT
the final result : outcome
The meaning of the word upshot is the final result : outcome.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |