GRE Word List
CLAUSTROPHOBIA
abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces
The meaning of the word claustrophobia is abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces.
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| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
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| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
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| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
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