GRE Word List
DETERMINATION
a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy
The meaning of the word determination is a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy.
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|---|---|
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| fester | to generate pus |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| broach | brooch |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| 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 |