GRE Word List
COLLATION
a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper
The meaning of the word collation is a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper.
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|---|---|
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| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| nib | bill |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
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| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
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