GRE Word List
ARTERY
any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body
The meaning of the word artery is any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| 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 |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| groom | bridegroom |
| warrant | sanction |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| suppliant | supplicant |