GRE Word List
FUNEREAL
of or relating to a funeral
The meaning of the word funereal is of or relating to a funeral.
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| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |