GRE Word List
ACUTE
characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
The meaning of the word acute is characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| 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 |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| bacchanal | orgy |