GRE Word List
ARDOR
an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling
The meaning of the word ardor is an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling.
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| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| bigot | a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
