GRE Word List
BASTION
a projecting part of a fortification
The meaning of the word bastion is a projecting part of a fortification.
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| potentate | ruler |
| 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 |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |