GRE Word List
AFTERLIFE
an existence after death
The meaning of the word afterlife is an existence after death.
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| homily | a usually short sermon |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
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| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
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| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |