GRE Word List
VICISSITUDE
the quality or state of being changeable : mutability
The meaning of the word vicissitude is the quality or state of being changeable : mutability.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| environ | encircle |
| tactful | having or showing tact |