GRE Word List
ADJOURN
to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time
The meaning of the word adjourn is to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |