GRE Word List
CHECK
to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively
The meaning of the word check is to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertex | the top of the head |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| exude | to ooze out |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
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