GRE Word List
AUXILIARY
offering or providing help
The meaning of the word auxiliary is offering or providing help.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| quorum | a select group |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| 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 |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |