GRE Word List

CROSS

a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution

The meaning of the word cross is a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution.

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WordMeaning
impersonalhaving no personal reference or connection
citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
attestto affirm to be true or genuine
hauntto visit often : frequent
ineffableincapable of being expressed in words : indescribable
desperadoa bold or violent criminal
regimeregimen
agnostica person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
circumventto manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem
infernalof or relating to a nether world of the dead