Super Hard GRE words 4
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13 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| sole meuniere |  n. dredge w/ flour, saute in butter; sauce=butter, lemon, parsley |
| eleemosynary | adj. generous in assistance to the poor |
| chiropodist | n. foot doctor |
| cynophobia | n. fear of dogs or rabies |
| cyn | Greek Root: dog |
| chimerical | adj. imaginary; fantastical |
| Circe | n. enchantress who turned Ulysses' men into swine |
| recondite | adj. difficult to understand; hidden; obscure |
| epigram | n. brief, witty saying/story/poem (that makes a great point) |
| mulct | v./n. financial penalty; to swindle or fine |
| irredentism | n. national policy of reclaiming lost, neighboring lands full of ethnically similar people. |
| apostasy | n. renunciation of a religion, principle, belief, loyalty |
| vertiginous | adj. 1) causing dizziness, as from spinning or heights; 2) rotating quickly (earth, eg) |
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