GRE Word List
CEREBRAL
of or relating to the brain or the intellect
The meaning of the word cerebral is of or relating to the brain or the intellect.
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| 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 |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| meticulous | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |