GRE Word List
FUNCTIONARY
one who serves in a certain function
The meaning of the word functionary is one who serves in a certain function.
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| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |