GRE Word List
VALID
having legal efficacy or force
The meaning of the word valid is having legal efficacy or force.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| dire | exciting horror |
| inundate | overwhelm |