GRE Word List

CHASM

a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge

The meaning of the word chasm is a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge.

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mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
disperseto cause to break up (see break up
tardymoving slowly : sluggish
graphicof or relating to the pictorial arts
incorporateto unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole
quicksilvermercury
travestya debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation
communetalk over
flutterto flap the wings rapidly
miasmaa vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease