GRE Word List
EMBOSS
to raise the surface of into bosses
The meaning of the word emboss is to raise the surface of into bosses.
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| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |