GRE Word List
AUGUST
marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
The meaning of the word august is marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| 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 |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |