GRE Word List
APPLICATION
an act of applying:
The meaning of the word application is an act of applying:.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |