GRE Word List
VYING
contending; to strive for superiority
The meaning of the word vying is contending; to strive for superiority.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |