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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| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |