GRE Word List
ARCHIVES
a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved
The meaning of the word archives is a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| faculty | ability |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| paste | a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls |
| 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 |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |