GRE Word List

FLORA

a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period

The meaning of the word flora is a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period.

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purchaseto obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy
prevalentgenerally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread
recapitulateto retell or restate briefly : summarize
incidentan occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening
vivisectionthe cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation
exonerateto relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
saturnineborn under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn
blunthaving an edge or point that is not sharp
errantbehaving wrongly