GRE Word List
ASTRAL
of, relating to, or coming from the stars
The meaning of the word astral is of, relating to, or coming from the stars.
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| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| 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 |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
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| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |