GRE Word List
ANNEX
to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition
The meaning of the word annex is to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| strew | to spread by scattering |