GRE Word List
CARNIVOROUS
meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore
The meaning of the word carnivorous is meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore.
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| propriety | fitness; quality of being proper; correct conduct; conformity to prevailing customs and usages; CF. proprietor, proprietary |
| cohere | stick together |
| hypochondriac | person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness; ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill; CF. abdomen |
| sustenance | sustaining; means of livelihood, support, food, nourishment; something that maintains life; food |
| verbose | wordy; N. verbosity |
| infer | deduce; conclude; N. inference |
| lachrymose | producing tears; tearful |
| lank | long and thin; Ex. Lank, gaunt, Abraham Lincoln |
| smother | kill from lack of air; suppress; cover thickly; Ex. smothered in little stickers |
| subsidiary | serving to assist; subordinate; secondary; of a subsidy; N. |
