GRE Word List
FERTILE
producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive
The meaning of the word fertile is producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |