GRE Word List
HINTERLANDS
a region lying inland from a coast
The meaning of the word hinterlands is a region lying inland from a coast.
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|---|---|
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
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| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| noisome | noxious |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
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