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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| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
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| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |