GRE Word List
VERISIMILITUDE
the quality or state of being verisimilar
The meaning of the word verisimilitude is the quality or state of being verisimilar.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| 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 |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |