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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a 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") |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |