GRE Word List
GRIM
fierce in disposition or action : savage
The meaning of the word grim is fierce in disposition or action : savage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| rift | fissure |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |