GRE Word List
HIEROGLYPHIC
written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters
The meaning of the word hieroglyphic is written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| purported | reputed |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |