GRE Word List
CRONE
a cruel or ugly old woman
The meaning of the word crone is a cruel or ugly old woman.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| intermediary | mediator |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |