GRE Word List
ELIXIR
a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold
The meaning of the word elixir is a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold.
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| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
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| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
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| gradation | a series forming successive stages |