GRE Word List

DISEMBARK

to remove to shore from a ship

The meaning of the word disembark is to remove to shore from a ship.

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lexicographeran author or editor of a dictionary
provisionalserving for the time being : temporary
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
deputizeto appoint as deputy
pharisaicalmarked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
scoffan expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
etymologythe 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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