GRE Word List
CORONER
a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
The meaning of the word coroner is a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner.
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| emollient | making soft or supple |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
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| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
