GRE Word List
DISSERTATION
an extended usually written treatment of a subject
The meaning of the word dissertation is an extended usually written treatment of a subject.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| nourishment | food |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
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