GRE Word List
CULVERT
a transverse drain
The meaning of the word culvert is a transverse drain.
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|---|---|
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| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| wreak | bring about |