GRE Word List
CONSANGUINEOUS
of the same blood or origin
The meaning of the word consanguineous is of the same blood or origin.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| query | question |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| congenial | pleasant |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |