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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| provenance | origin |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |