GRE Word List
ALIMONY
an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce
The meaning of the word alimony is an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
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| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |