GRE Word List
CASUALTY
a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
The meaning of the word casualty is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action.
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dainty | something delicious to the taste |
broach | brooch |
fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
sybarite | voluptuary |
prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
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qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
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