GRE Word List

DEFOLIATE

to deprive of leaves especially prematurely

The meaning of the word defoliate is to deprive of leaves especially prematurely.

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reprisea musical repetition:
centaurany of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly
forbearancea refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
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visceralfelt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
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igniteto set afire