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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| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |