GRE Word List
CROTCHETY
given to crotchets (see crotchet
The meaning of the word crotchety is given to crotchets (see crotchet.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| bulk | magnitude |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| providence | divine guidance or care |