GRE Word List
ABLUTION
the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)
The meaning of the word ablution is the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite).
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| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
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| shove | to push along |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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