GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| 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 |
| warranted | sanction |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
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