GRE Word List

FIGURINE

a small carved or molded figure : statuette

The meaning of the word figurine is a small carved or molded figure : statuette.

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vertebrateany 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
impassableincapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted
languorweakness or weariness of body or mind
murkycharacterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
presentimenta feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
pulsethe regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart
dissidentdisagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
insidioushaving a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle
proprietythe quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness
posteritythe offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation