GRE Word List

ABODE

the place where one lives : home

The meaning of the word abode is the place where one lives : home.

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WordMeaning
contrivedevise
salutaryproducing a beneficial effect : remedial
confinesomething (such as borders or walls) that encloses
archetypethe original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition
innocuousproducing no injury : harmless
embroilto throw into disorder or confusion
iridescenthaving or exhibiting iridescence
palliddeficient in color : wan