GRE Word List
CULVERT
a transverse drain
The meaning of the word culvert is a transverse drain.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trenchant | keen |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| 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 |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |