GRE Word List
VOGUE
popular acceptation or favor : popularity
The meaning of the word vogue is popular acceptation or favor : popularity.
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Word | Meaning |
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ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |