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 |
|---|---|
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
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| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| whittle | a large knife |