GRE Word List
AMENABLE
liable to be brought to account : answerable
The meaning of the word amenable is liable to be brought to account : answerable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| score | twenty |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |