GRE Word List
BROOD
the young of an animal or a family of young
The meaning of the word brood is the young of an animal or a family of young.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| cohorts | companion |
| polity | political organization |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |