GRE Word List
CORPUS
the body of a human or animal especially when dead
The meaning of the word corpus is the body of a human or animal especially when dead.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |