GRE Word List
VIGIL
the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary
The meaning of the word vigil is the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
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| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| unkempt | not combed |
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