GRE Word List
COMA
a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison
The meaning of the word coma is a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison.
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| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| bitter | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |