GRE Word List
CONGENITAL
existing at or dating from birth
The meaning of the word congenital is existing at or dating from birth.
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|---|---|
| untenable | not able to be defended |
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| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| occident | west |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
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