GRE Word List
BROOK
creek
The meaning of the word brook is creek.
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excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
enhance | heighten |
indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
laud | praise |
arsenal | an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment |
eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |