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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| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
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| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
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