GRE Word List
CANINE
a conical pointed tooth
The meaning of the word canine is a conical pointed tooth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| premonitory | giving warning |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |