GRE Word List
ALCHEMY
a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
The meaning of the word alchemy is a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| fabricate | invent |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |