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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antecedentsa substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him")
poreto gaze intently
militateto have weight or effect
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
schemea plan or program of action
pretentiouscharacterized by pretension: such as
gallowsa frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged
mongrelan individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed
banea source of harm or ruin : curse
castrateto deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes