GRE Word List
EXCISE
an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity
The meaning of the word excise is an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| contrive | devise |
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