GRE Word List
ABSTRACT
disassociated from any specific instance
The meaning of the word abstract is disassociated from any specific instance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| distort | to twist (see twist |