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 |
|---|---|
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |