GRE Word List
VISION
the act or power of seeing : sight
The meaning of the word vision is the act or power of seeing : sight.
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| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |