GRE Word List
BETROTH
to promise to marry
The meaning of the word betroth is to promise to marry.
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| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
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| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
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