GRE Word List

EFFLUVIUM

an invisible emanation

The meaning of the word effluvium is an invisible emanation.

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stentorianextremely loud
domineerto exercise arbitrary or overbearing control
opulencewealth
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naivetea naive remark or action
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)
millenniumthe thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation
gougea chisel with a concavo-convex cross section