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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| spoof | deceive |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |