GRE Word List
DESERTS
arid land with usually sparse vegetation
The meaning of the word deserts is arid land with usually sparse vegetation.
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| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
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