GRE Word List
ASSAY
to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components
The meaning of the word assay is to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components.
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| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
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| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |