GRE Word List
HAIL
precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow
The meaning of the word hail is precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow.
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|---|---|
| trance | stupor |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
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| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
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