GRE Word List
AFFABLE
being pleasant and at ease in talking to others
The meaning of the word affable is being pleasant and at ease in talking to others.
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| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| 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 |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |