GRE Word List

VENERABLE

calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments

The meaning of the word venerable is calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.

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epicureone with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine
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satirea literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
vociferousmarked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
forerunnerone that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as
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shuntto turn off to one side : shift
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
outmodednot being in style
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